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A Quick Guide On Proper Pronunciation In Boston

Yes, most people in town actually do speak like this. It’s refreshing every time I go home!

ah: The letter between “q” & “s.”ahnt: Sistah of your fathah or muthah.bah: Serves beah and hahd likkah: “The train to Noo Yok has a bah cah.”bay-ah: Ferocious brown or black animal.beah: Malt beverage.bahn: As in: “What yeah were you bahn in?”bzah: Strange, odd.Chahlz: The rivah.chowdah: Clams, milk, buttah.cahn: Stahchy veggie that comes on a cob.connah: Where streets intersect.fah: Not neah heahfahk: What you eat pahster with.fiah: BlazeGahden: Where the Celtics used to play (also a place to plant flowahs.)hahbah: What they dumped tea into in 1773.Hahvid: Preppy college across the rivah.hahf-ahst: Done without regahd to detail.heah: Done with the eahs. “Listen my children, and you shall heah of the midnight ride of Paul Reveah.”khakis: What you staht the cah with and keep on yawh key chain.nawtheastah: Stahm that blows in from the wottah.Noo Yok: Sinkhole 240 miles south of Tremont Street.owah: Sixty minutes.pahk: Cahn’t do it in Hahvad Yahd. Not downtown eithah.pahster: spaghetti, ziti, etc.pahty: A place to go to drink and socialize – nothing to do with Mother Nature.pastah: The rectah of a parish, like St. Mahgrits.pichahs: They throw fastballs at Fenway.Rawjah: He used to throw the fastest fastballs at Fenway.Reveah: He rode through Ahlington on a hoss shouting “To Ahms!”shuah: Of courseshot: Not tall.wof: A peeah, jutting into the hahbahwottah: H2Oyeah: A 365 day period